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Symphony in Black

film short by Ellington

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  • Duke Ellington
    In Duke Ellington: Classical forms

    …basis for the film short Symphony in Black (1935), which also features the voice of Billie Holiday (uncredited). Ellington wrote motion-picture scores for The Asphalt Jungle (1950) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959) and composed for the ballet and theatre—including, at the height of the American civil rights

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